A New York woman said she felt like she was being attacked by animals after a group of men approached her in Harlem, biting her in the face and breaking the skin, according to NBC New York.
The 31-year-old woman, who was not publicly identified, was also beaten, spat and robbed during the attack, which took place near a liquor store in the Manhattan neighborhood, NBC New York reported.
Stopping at a liquor store in West Harlem at around 6 pm Monday, the woman said the men had offered to buy a bottle of wine, but she politely declined.
Video shared by the New York Police Department it shows the men around her outside the store, which is where she said they attacked her.
“I couldn’t believe it, it was like an animal. It’s the only way I can say, it was like an animal,” the woman told NBC New York.
During the attack, while she was bitten and spat, someone stole her $ 750 phone.
“I just remember screaming at the top of my lungs, just saying, ‘He’s biting me! He’s biting me!’ she said. “He bit my eyebrow and then just kept going, he kept opening his mouth to try to grab it again.”
Since the attack, the woman told NBC New York that her thoughts are no longer “normal thoughts”.
“It was like they wanted to degrade me, spitting at me and kicking me,” she said.
There is currently a $ 2,500 reward for information that leads to the arrest of the woman’s attackers.
